Aromatic, well aged Cabernet Sauvignon wines are one of the world's most cherished and venerable varietals.

Valued for their luxurious full flavor, ...

In the 1970s, the wine world finally sat up and took notice of the outstanding wines being produced in California's Napa Valley and other wine regions. At the 1976 Judgment of Paris wine tasting competi...

Medium-bodied Merlot wines remain one of the most popular wine varietals in the United States.

Traditionally used in Bordeaux blends, Merlo...

Wine experts use a points system to quantify the merits of particular wines. In your search for for top rated red wines, you are likely to encounter a great many mediocre or decent but insufficient wines.

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The problem with shopping at conventional wine retailers is that for every worthy bottle of wine on the shelf there are dozens of conventional, mediocre wines to sift through.

Even well-versed wine aficionados can have a hard time separating the great from the good.

Howeve...

The famous Clos Du Val winery was formed in 1972 when two men, John Goelet and Bernard Portet, decided to set up shop in the then-undiscovered Stag's Leap district of Napa Valley.

Using their pedigree in the art of French winemaking, the two men shaped Clos Du Val into one of Calif...

For years, John Goelet and Bernard Portet scoured the world for the perfect place to open their Clos Du Val winery.

They finally settled on Stag's Leap in then-unknown Napa Valley, ...

After a two-year search spanning five continents, business partners and winemakers John Goelet and Bernard Portet finally settled on a place to open the Clos Du Val winery in 1972.

They chose a corner of California the wine world had never heard of... then. It's called Stag's Leap,...

Australia has quietly become the sixth-largest wine producing region in the world.

The country makes competitive varietals of all sorts, from Shiraz to ...

Since 1797, the storied Louis Latour winery of Burgundy, France has been dazzling wine drinkers with its artistic viticultural creations.

For 10 generations, control of the estate has passed from father to son, ensuring that Louis Latour's original legacy persists through the centuri...